R Observatory: Metrics for datanugget version 1.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

datanugget

1.5.0Package record

Create, Optimize, and Refine Data Nuggets

2packages dependsuggested by 1

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rituparna DeyCRAN page ↗

Creating, optimizing and refining data nuggets. Data nuggets reduce a large dataset into a small collection of nuggets of data, each containing a center (location), weight (importance), and scale (variability) parameter. Data nugget centers are selected based on a space-filling maximum-entropy scheme. Data nugget weights are created by counting the number observations closest to a given data nugget center. We then say the data nugget 'contains' these observations and the data nugget center is recalculated as the mean of these observations. Data nugget scales are created by calculating the trace of the covariance matrix of the observations contained within a data nugget divided by the dimension of the dataset. The optimal number of data nuggets is determined data-driven based on the relative second-order differences of propensity score indices. Data nuggets are refined by 'splitting' data nuggets which have high scales or elongated shapes (defined as the ratio of the two largest eigenvalues of the covariance matrix of the observations contained within the data nugget).

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("datanugget", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-datanugget

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-datanugget

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-datanugget

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.5.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,802 · ~9/day · ~283/mo

Releases R versions

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39830 days

1.1K90 days

3.4K1 year

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Also on114 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing datanugget adds 27 packages (12 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (8)

R >= 4.0doSNOW doParallel foreachparallelRfast mgcv(>= 1.9-4)ggplot2

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Depends 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

WCluster PPbigdata

Suggests, most downloaded first

MosaiClusteR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Rituparna Dey

Author, Maintainer since 1.4.0 (2025) · added in 1.4.0

Traymon Beavers

Author

Javier Cabrera

Author

Ge Cheng

Author · added in 1.2.2

Yajie Duan

Author · added in 1.2.1

Mariusz Lubomirski

Author

Kunting Qi

Author · added in 1.2.2

Previously maintained by Yajie Duan (1.2.1 to 1.3.1) and Traymon Beavers (1.0.0).

Releases (8)

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-05-02
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-01-24
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 17 KB

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citation("datanugget")

Format

Dey, R., Beavers, T., Cabrera, J., Cheng, G., Duan, Y., Lubomirski, M., & Qi, K. (2026). datanugget: Create, Optimize, and Refine Data Nuggets (Version 1.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.datanugget

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for datanugget version 1.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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